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Blu-ray: First Glimpses Of The Set In NYPosted By Mike on June 29, 2011

A private Star Wars Media Day was held in New York last week as Lucasfilm presented a number of their upcoming releases to a variety of pop-culture and tech-related media outlets. The big splash of the event was a presentation of the Star Wars saga on Blu-ray. Clips from both trilogies were previewed along with the packaging and bonus features. While the BD release was the main event, other upcoming releases -- such as the Season 3 box set of The Clone Wars, Kinect Star Wars, books, and other merchandise -- were also presented.

Big Picture Sound was one of the outlets in attendance and provides a nice write-up with a few pictures from the event. Excerpt below...

"Well, at a private event in New York City last week, our friends at Lucasfilm and Fox pulled back the curtain all too briefly for an exciting peek at the Blu-rays as part of the 2011 Star Wars Media Day. Two clips were played (one from a classic film, one from a prequel) to demonstrate the quality of the brand-new 1080p/DTS-HD Master Audio 6.1 remasters, on a Panasonic plasma and over a Panasonic HTiB system. It was really just enough to whet our appetites (as if we weren't drooling enough already), but I am now very optimistic: the clips that we saw of films both of the original trilogy flavor and the newer prequels were stunning. Release of the older films in particular on Blu-ray will be a real challenge for Fox, owing to the limits of cinematic technology of the era, but Episodes II and III should have the potential to truly amaze."